A quarter teaspoon per day with breakfast did not work for me even after 40 days. I gave up cinnamon for about a month.
Then, I started again. This time, a half teaspoon mixed with my psyllium fiber morning drink began working almost immediately.
My typical morning reading before the above regimen was 135 to 139. I've been getting this reading for five years, except during occasions of illness when the readings would climb to around 150.
Readings following the new regimen are in the low 120's. Today's reading was 118.
I'm still taking my medicine: Metformin 500 mg. three times a day. Glipizide 2.5 mg. 4 times a day.
Readings following the new regimen are in the low 120's. Today's reading was 118.
Thanks for the report. Maybe if everyone shared their experience with cinnamon we could get some semblance of an experimental protocol. What brand of cinnamon are you using? How does it taste?
Have you tried post prandial comparisons?
BL
"As the waves pass the rock, their shape is changed. There is a hologram of the rock within the wave that comes forward and crashes on the beach, then there's a reflected wave back." Ralph Abraham
I've been using McCormick's ground cinnamon that I buy at Costco in an 18 oz package for about seven or eight dollars. It tastes OK. It's not a premium cinnamon.
I'm not aware of a decrease in post prandial readings, but they've always been pretty good thanks to Metformin. My interest in cinnamon has been to lower my morning fasting readings which Metformin was unable to lower. I've only been taking the 1/2 teaspoon for a week with the modest improvement I described. My previous attempts at 1/4 teaspoon were ineffective in lowering the fasting readings.
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Readings following the new regimen are in the low 120's. Today's reading
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118.
Thanks for the report. Maybe if everyone shared their experience with
cinnamon
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we could get some semblance of an experimental protocol. What brand of cinnamon are you using? How does it taste?
Have you tried post prandial comparisons?
BL
"As the waves pass the rock, their shape is changed. There is a hologram
of
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the rock within the wave that comes forward and crashes on the beach, then there's a reflected wave back." Ralph Abraham
Readings following the new regimen are in the low 120's. Today's reading was 118.
Thanks for the report. Maybe if everyone shared their experience with cinnamon we could get some semblance of an experimental protocol. What brand of cinnamon are you using? How does it taste?
Have you tried post prandial comparisons?
I've been feeling good results from a 00 capsule before food, sometimes a second one during a large or long meal. Seems to get more energy out of the food without a feeling of 'spike'.
Usually I combine this with some black tea to wake up the pancreas before the food comes, as my problem has involved delayed insulin response.
Also a bit less problem with dullness/lethargy after meals. But I've been changign other factors too.
